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I Woke Up This Morning with a Desire to Write 1st February 2018 A.P.W.A., Hamilton College 198 College Hill Road Clinton, NY. 13323 ATTN: You have a Permissions Questionnaire and previous work on file for me. Submission: I woke up this morning with a desire to write. Sometimes this penitentiary gets the best of me. The state of Texas has me in solitary confinement, what it calls Administrative Segregation. I'm isolated in my cell 24 hours a day. Sometimes I get to go inside a dog cage wh...

July 4th, 2017 9:00 A.M. Dear A.P.W.A., I received your most welcomed letter, and enclosed w/ this letter is the questionnaire filled out, along with me signature granting permission to publish. The following is first-person writing addressed to a broad readership: Hello there, My name is Cristobal "Cris" Bazan from McAllen, Texas, and I am 33 years old. Over half of my life I have wasted it incarcerated. I am not proud of it, but that's just what it is... The worst way to do t...

23 November 2017 Today is Thanksgiving Day, and I have a lot to be thankful for: I am thankful to be alive; I should've been dead a long time ago, and I should've been dead many more times after that, and yet, I'm still alive. Thank you. I am thankful for my daughter; my Baby Mama might've left me when I came to prison, but my daughter will never leave me. Thank you. I am thankful for my prison sentence; I was on a one-way road to self-destruction, but this imprisonment sa...